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So this weekend was filled by me playing mostly Wrath of the Lich King. I know I know, laugh at me, oh well, if 11 million players play it, I must not be the only closet dork. However, being a web manager, I’m pretty high on the closet dorkness.

I put off everything this weekend, I didn’t shower for two days, I didn’t shave, and I told the girlfriend that I wouldn’t be seeing her this weekend(she was shocked but she managed). I haven’t been able to really get to do anything I wanted in a long time due to real life obligations, friends, family functions, and other time consuming projects. But, this weekend I put my foot down and had a blast being with others online sharing the experience of new World of Warcraft content.

I’ve decided to level my Paladin first to 80 as that will no doubt take the longest to level, but in 2 days, Friday and Saturday, I managed to get to level 74. I can safely say that I will never sit in my room for two days living and breathing a video game, my back hurts, my legs hurt, and I didn’t eat or drink much. I was like a zombie drone staring at a computer screen killing pixel beasts.

I don’t really play it for the game, I play it because of the social aspect. I’ve been with the same guild for 4 years, and in that 4 years time I have made some really good friends and enjoy their company. I consider them friends because for a few hours on any given night were shooting the breeze and escaping reality. But, after Saturday night I realized I could never be addicted to a game like some other people are just because of the sheer fact that my body ached from playing that game so long.

So on Sunday, I got some flowers and candy, drove to my girlfriend’s place and thanked her for being a good sport about the whole thing. Back to real life I guess!

Well, today something incredible has happened. I was doing my morning routine when I went to check my mail at yahoo, and was incredibly surprised with the new look!

Yahoo

I have to say, I really enjoy the new streamlined look of the site. I just felt as if Yahoo was stale recently from their old school search engine looking approach. It may be a new graphics approach, but I certainly love how it’s set up. Now if they could just mimic the quality of gmail and it’s functions and apply it to Yahoo mail. So take a gander at the new front page by clicking the image or heading over to Yahoo yourself!

Posted on Yahoo this morning, I figured I would go ahead and give a plug to some interesting surveys shown about some of the strangest jobs people have taken for work. The list goes from A-Z and can be found here as well.

A: Autopsy assistant

B: Bartender at the Liberace mansion

C: Cat nanny

D: Donkey trainer

E: Elf at Santa’s workshop

F: FBI Fingerprint examiner

G: Grave digger

H: Hurricane hunter

I: Ice sculpture carver

J: Junk mail machine operator

K: Kitty litter box decorator

L: Laser tag referee

M: Magician’s assistant

N: Nuclear electrician on a submarine

O: Opera singer

P: Parachute tester

Q: Quality control/taster for chocolate factory

R: Romance specialist

S: Scratcher (scratched backs for patients)

T: Turkey wrangler

U: Undercover vice decoy

V: Video game tester

W: Wallpaper peeler

X: X-ray technician for zoo animals

Y: Yawn counter at a sleep clinic

Z: Zamboni driver

I’m not going to lie but some of these jobs seem pretty cool to be working for. Like, Zamboni Driver, Romance Specialist, and Laser Tag Referee. All of them are equally badass, and more fun that a librarian!

So, I have decided to try and do something that can help people with boredom at work, and hopefully will entertain someone somewhere throughout the day. My goal with this current ongoing project will be to update it daily with links that I find that someone else may enjoy. It’s also a project that I feel will be good reference for myself as it will help stave boredom for myself as well, because I will certainly try and do my best to help anyone. Also, this is me asking for help, if you find any great links that you think would be great for the list, go ahead and post them in the comments section, I will surely add them to the list below!

So today I am pretty bored. Usually Monday’s start off with a bang, but here at the office nothing out of the ordinary has happened. We had one customer integration problem, but other than that, all I had to do was send it to our CMS database company and they work on it.

Sports are in a Lul moment, but I can safely say only 7 more weeks till vacation AND Steeler’s training camp. I can’t freaking wait to go watch them(thats the glory of being a resident of Greensburg I guess haha)! Other than that, the Celtics/Lakers series is turning out to be a pretty straight forward go around. I’m rooting for the Celtics. I love Coach Jackson, but when he went to the Lakers I felt he sold out. I remember back when, the last championship Jackson won with the Bulls he said he was done….then the money pulled him right back. I say more power to him, but it just comes off as a great way to join a stacked team with Kobe and Shaq to just gain some more rings. Oh well, I’ll die with my tin-foil hate theorys hahaha. Go Celtics! I just want KG and Pierce to get a title, with what both of them have been through on mediocre teams and all, I hope they pull it off.

Hockey season is over and it ended on a stale note with the Pens, oh well maybe next year. But, with what Hossa said earlier this week about signing for less, I really hope it comes through! Although were gonna lose many decent players, maybe we can keep Sid and Hossa togethor for a few years.

Ok well other than that, I got nothing. I hope everything is going smooth for the people that read my stuff out there. Have fun and enjoy that weather.
P.S. Gas prices piss me off!